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Software Engineer

Build simulation environments, tasks, and verifiers to train and evaluate long-horizon autonomous AI agents using reinforcement learning. Requires strong engineering fundamentals, high agency, and focus on robust systems.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Build diverse, high-fidelity environments that test agents in realistic settings
  • Design complex tasks that require long-horizon reasoning and tool use
  • Develop robust verifiers that reliably measure agent performance
  • Improve infrastructure and tooling to run, debug, and improve environments
  • Work closely with the research team to identify failure modes and turn them into new tasks and benchmarks

Requirements

  • Strong engineering fundamentals
  • Enjoy building from first principles and solving open-ended technical problems
  • High agency and a strong bias toward shipping
  • High quality bar and care about building robust systems

Skills

Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Environments, Python, Infrastructure, Tooling, Debugging, Verifiers, Benchmarks

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